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Vahagn Vardanian

Vahagn Vardanian

Co-founder and CTO of RedRays

[CVE-2021-44231] Code Injection vulnerability in SAP ABAP Server & ABAP Platform (Translation Tools), SAP security note 3119365

Description

Symptom

An attacker with low privileges can exploit the weakness in internally used text extraction reports (Translation Tools) which will enable the execution of arbitrary commands in the background. An attacker could thereby control the behavior of the application compromising all its data.

Other Terms

Code Injection, Command Injection, OS command injection, CVE-2021-44231

Reason and Prerequisites

Internally used reports were released by accident.

Solution

  • Coding is deactivated (commented out). 
  • Please apply/implement this note. 
  • There is no impact on existing functionality.   
 

Available fix and Supported packages

SAP_BASIS |701|701
SAP_BASIS|804|804
SAP_BASIS|740|740
SAP_BASIS|750|756
SAP_BASIS|786|786

Affected component

SAP_BASIS

CVSS

Score: 9.9
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploit


Detailed vulnerability information added to RedRays Security Platform. Contact [email protected] for details.

URL

https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/3119365

TAGS

Code Injection, Command Injection, OS command injection, CVE-2021-44231

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